C&P exam. How long does it take to get an answer?

I dont really disagree for the most part, but there are some folks that all they do is hang around and file claims to get to 100% and beyond and they know they dont deserve it but they also know the VA is an overworked and overburdened system that a lot of times will just give in.

Those are the veterans I am talking about. I like the name for "verification of job security". I know you see them all the time.

file takes up a FILE DRAWER by itself. And 15 BVA Appeals and three COVA decisions later he still 60%. Was that when he returned home from Vietnam. And has appealed EVERY rating ever issued.

Yep and they are the reason I NEVER WANT TO RATE CLAIMS.

As a VSR my job is to service veteran and assist him/her in gathering the evidence to support their claims.

In that capacity it doesn't matter if they are chronic claimers. My job is merely to help them gather the evidence to support those claims, and process the rating should they be successful.

And process their clothing aloowances, auto grants, and add their dependents.

But there is one chronic claimer whose story I'll share here.

Picked at the system until he got 100% BY SCHEDULE. This veteran has over 30 SC Conditions with the highest single evaluation being 50%. And not a single 0% condition.

Well ticked off his wife one day. And she submitted a 4138, saying he was wasting the benefit not paying bills and drinking it up. That prompted an incompetency proposal, vet went to exam under the IMPRESSION that would get him SMC. Who gave him that impression I don't know.

But bam rated incompetent wife gets/controls the check. And he reports for duty everyday with the CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT, where he is a Paramedic.

Imagine that he's rated incompetent by VA but works a job requiring competence everyday. Took him 15 years to edge that rating up like that only to lose it to his wife.

I was sent to a C&P arranged by QMS in my hometown, which is pretty far from a RO. When I got there, the doctor was very nice, and said "Where are your medical records?"

The letter from the VA had explicitly told me to bring no medical records. After the exam, I had to rush home and fax the doctor five or six pages of the few records I had kept of being sick.

The VA award letter says "you say you have been in the hospital 3 times," and stuff like that. One day, I got a phone call from a very nice lady at the VA who said a board was meeting at the VA as we spoke to decide my rating, and that they had no records saying I had "Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma," only "lymphoma." She said if I had some, fax them to her right away now or my case would be put back in the stack. And God love her for that!

By that time I had more records, and she was right. I had records saying I had leukemia, and saying I had lymphoma, but no "Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma." I faxed something down to her that said lymphoma, and wrote in the margins that any lymphoma that didn't say "Hodgkin's Lymphoma" is Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. The board or whoever apparently saw it my way, and the rest is 100% SC history.

But--I'm really concerned about how full and accurate the records they have are. So I'd sort of like to find out. As I've posted before, it is my belief that I ought to get a P%T rating because I'll not get better, I'll never stop getting treatment for six months, I have no future exams, and some guys get it and some don't for the same condition. The VA sent for my medical records, but I don't know what they have, and I do know they didn't supply whatever they do have to my C&P examining physician.

That's why I'm interested in finding out what's in my C&P. Maybe there's some critical item not in the VA's possession I could arrange for them to have, who knows.

If you were sent the Paper work for Chapter 35 Education benefits for your wife and children, you are what you are calling P and T.

If you have ChampVA for your dependents you are what you are calling P and T.

P and T comes from the INSURANCE INDUSTRY workers compensation and Short Term Disability/Long Term Disability claims.

Now if you expecting a rating that SPECIFICALLY says P and T. Not all rating specialist use those terms.

At VA it has come to be associated with a person receiving 100% either by schedule or Individual Unemployability. Whose claim folder WILL NOT BE INTERNALLY REVIEWED BY VA for consideration of reducing the degree of compensation.

But even a P and T veteran can be reduced if HIS CONDITION IMPROVES. That is the LAW of THE LAND. The only way he can't be reduced is if he's 20 Year Protected at 100%.

Based on your words, you are in treatment, THERE EXIST a possibility you will get better. They working miracles in treatment for cancers these days.

So don't harp on the words P and T because in the grand scheme of the law and veterans benefits. That isn't an official Term. It was borrowed UNOFFICIALLY to denote a veteran whose Claim Folder status can be summed up with these words.